Victorian book design & colour printing

London: Faber & Faber, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 182 pages: illustrations (part color), facsimiles (part color); 23 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 181-182. Contents: The background -- Whittingham and Pickering -- Novels and gift books up to 1850 -- Colour printing becomes commercial -- The inventions of George Baxter and Charles Knight -- Children's books up to 1850 -- Henry Shaw's coloured books and Chiswick Press colour printing -- Early lithography and Owen Jones -- The 'illuminated' gift book -- Henry Holt Humphreys, author and illustrator -- The advance of chromolithography -- Letterpress printing and yellow-backs -- Joseph Cundall, publishers and book designer -- Books of the 'Sixties' -- Colour printing from wood: Henry Vizetelly and Edmund Evans -- Colour printing from wood: G.C. Leighton, Kronheim, Dickes and Fawcett -- Styles of Victorian publisher's bindings -- The end of an epoch. Subjects: Book design. Color printing. Printing Great Britain History. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.